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The team provides advice and support on all aspects of traditional contentious and transactional/advisory insolvency work to insolvency practitioners and lenders. We also regularly undertake advisory projects for companies.


The team also has particular expertise and an excellent reputation for complex contentious matters and is often the go-to team for work of this nature.


We are able to exploit sector expertise within the firm including, in particular, banking and financial services, education, healthcare, hospitality and energy to ensure that real value is added to all projects undertaken by the team.

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Restructuring/Insolvency - Midlands

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Shakespeare Martineau has a highly-regarded regional restructuring and insolvency presence with a spread of offices across the Midlands. It provides advice on all aspects of contentious insolvency matters to lenders and insolvency practitioners. It also works on non-contentious issues, with a focus on corporate insolvency. The firm is able to draw on expertise across multiple sectors, including hospitality, energy and healthcare.

Work Highlights

  • Shakespeare Martineau assisted Kroll Advisory with the administration of Signature Shankly, which involved day-to-day business operations and real estate asset realisation.

Strengths

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Shakespeare Martineau provide reliable and dependable advice, even in the most complex situations.

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Shakespeare Martineau have good experience and commercial judgement.

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Shakespeare Martineau are technically good as well as being commercial.

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Notable Practitioners

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Andrew Taylor
2
Andrew Taylor
2
Band 2
Andrew Taylor is a partner based in Birmingham and leads the firm's national restructuring and insolvency team, advising on formal insolvencies, restructurings and turnarounds of all kinds. He is also instructed for contentious matters, such as fraud investigations arising from bankruptcy.

Andrew Taylor is a very good technical lawyer but he is also extremely commercial.

Andrew Taylor never fails to impress. His attention to detail, commercial and tactical thinking, relationships, service and response times are consistently first-class.

Andrew Taylor is a strong litigator who fights your corner. He provides very good commercial advice and backs his client's position.

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Andrew Taylor
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Members

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Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor

Head of Department

Christopher Neale

Sean Moran

Sheena Tandy

Tim Speed